Written to Serve: The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)

by Benjamin Sargent

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 2015

Overview

The use of Scripture in 1 Peter has been subject to much extensive analysis in the last 30 years. In Written to Serve Benjamin Sargent offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of how 1 Pet 1.10-12 offers a ‘hermeneutic,’ providing an insight into how Scripture is interpreted in the letter. Sargent also argues that the relation of 1.10-12 has been misunderstood. Rather than offering a Christological hermeneutic with a focus on the suffering and glories of Christ, Sargent asserts that the primary importance of 1.10-12 is its orientation of the prophetic witness towards the eschatological community as an act of service. Similarly, rather than offering a theological narrative of continuity between Israel and Christian communities, 1.10-12 may be seen to suggest a narrative of profound discontinuity in which the community in the present is elevated above God’s people of the past.

Key Features

• Detailed exegesis of 1 Peter 1
• Argues for a stronger continuity between Judaism and the nascent Christian community
• Extensive bibliography and indexes

Contents

• 1 Peter 1.10-12: An Hermeneutical Statement?
• Formal Citation of Scripture in 1 Peter
• Allusion to Scripture in 1 Peter
• The Exegetical Background to the Use of Scripture in 1 Peter
• 1 Peter and Theological Interpretation of Scripture

Top Highlights

“Danker, Frederick W., ‘1 Peter 1 24–2 17—A Consolatory Pericope’, ZNW 58 (1967), pp. 93–102.” (Page 198)

“Peter has a firm grasp of the literary context of each of his citations, all of which are chosen because the same dynamic of suffering and divine deliverance is present within each text in its context.” (Page 70)

Product Details

• Title: Written to Serve: The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter
• Author: Benjamin Sargent
• Series: Library of New Testament Studies
• Volume: 547
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. 1 Peter 1:10-12 › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780567660855, 9780567660848, 0567660850, 0567660842
• Resource ID: LLS:WRTTNSRVSSC1PTR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:54:48Z

About Benjamin Sargent

Benjamin Sargent is assistant curate in the Parish of Warblington with Emsworth in Hampshire and a research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. His publications include Latimer Study 75, As It Is Written: Interpreting the Bible with Boldness. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on biblical interpretation published in Churchman, Evangelical Quarterly and the Heythrop Journal.